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Thursday, July 03, 2008
from HOUSE PRESS:
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Dear Friends,
House Press is happy to announce the release of Dana Ward's Goodnight Voice. His book is available through our blog at housepress.blogspot.com.
It is $6, which includes shipping.
Warm regards,
Michael and Luke
Dear Friends,
House Press is happy to announce the release of Dana Ward's Goodnight Voice. His book is available through our blog at housepress.blogspot.com.
It is $6, which includes shipping.
Warm regards,
Michael and Luke
Labels: Dana Ward, House Press
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
BOOK 6 by ALAN DAVIS (House Press)
from HOUSE PRESS
$6 (convienently so)
GO GET IT!
from HOUSE PRESS
$6 (convienently so)
GO GET IT!
Labels: House Press
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
from ERIC UNGER:
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House Press Chicago has been busy at work on three fine new publications:
Evening by Barrett Gordon——($10)
Spell magazine: issue 4 (Eric Unger, editor)——($5)
& an Alan Davies broadside——($2)
please visit the House Press blog for ordering info
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EVENING (Barrett Gordon)
newer face on a brand new book, evening, by barrett gordon. the poems
in this edition shimmer with the possibilties latent in life & death,
in cities & houses, and in speaking & silence. in 5 evening colors.
perfect-bound. $10.
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SPELL 4 (Eric Unger, editor)
the dynamic new issue features equal parts textual and visual poetry from:
Alan May / Tom Wegrzynowski
Michael Slosek
Andrew Hughes
Nico Vassilakis
Sarah Menefee
Jessica Wickens
Jesse Ferguson
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
Aaron Lowinger
Catherine Daly
Michael Carr
cover art: Scott Shanley
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ALAN DAVIES [broadside]
an unpublished poem to celebrate the upcoming release of Book 6,
printed by Michael Slosek with artwork by Eric Unger
House Press Chicago has been busy at work on three fine new publications:
Evening by Barrett Gordon——($10)
Spell magazine: issue 4 (Eric Unger, editor)——($5)
& an Alan Davies broadside——($2)
please visit the House Press blog for ordering info
--
EVENING (Barrett Gordon)
newer face on a brand new book, evening, by barrett gordon. the poems
in this edition shimmer with the possibilties latent in life & death,
in cities & houses, and in speaking & silence. in 5 evening colors.
perfect-bound. $10.
--
SPELL 4 (Eric Unger, editor)
the dynamic new issue features equal parts textual and visual poetry from:
Alan May / Tom Wegrzynowski
Michael Slosek
Andrew Hughes
Nico Vassilakis
Sarah Menefee
Jessica Wickens
Jesse Ferguson
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
Aaron Lowinger
Catherine Daly
Michael Carr
cover art: Scott Shanley
--
ALAN DAVIES [broadside]
an unpublished poem to celebrate the upcoming release of Book 6,
printed by Michael Slosek with artwork by Eric Unger
Labels: House Press
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
TODAY!!!
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from Michael Slosek:
Cedar Sigo and David Larsen at Books and Bookshelves
Dear Friends,
Please come and join House Press for a reading on February 19th at 7:30 at Books and Bookshelves: 99 Sanchez Street (between 14th St & Duboce Ave), San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 558-9019. In support of the publication of Expensive Magic, Cedar Sigo and David Larsen will be reading. House Press books will be on sale, as well as the remarkable selection of small press titles B&B's carries. Hope to see you there!
MS
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from Michael Slosek:
Cedar Sigo and David Larsen at Books and Bookshelves
Dear Friends,
Please come and join House Press for a reading on February 19th at 7:30 at Books and Bookshelves: 99 Sanchez Street (between 14th St & Duboce Ave), San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 558-9019. In support of the publication of Expensive Magic, Cedar Sigo and David Larsen will be reading. House Press books will be on sale, as well as the remarkable selection of small press titles B&B's carries. Hope to see you there!
MS
Labels: House Press, readings
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
from HOUSE PRESS:
House Press is thrilled to make available Cedar Sigo’s Expensive Magic. With precision and elegance, these poems carry the reader through Astoria, the slums of Paris, through London, Abyssinia, and Tangiers. As poetry at times both terse and lush, the poems create a strange world threatening to spill into violence, but holding fast to those people the poet loves. Cedar is an exceptional talent, and we’re happy to have him in our company.
This is the first book in the House Press Bay Area poetry series. A reading will be held in January in San Francisco to celebrate the book. For more information about the series, please write to Michael Slosek at mslosek at fulbrightweb dot org.
Expensive Magic may be bought HERE for $6, which includes shipping, or by check.
This is the first book in the House Press Bay Area poetry series. A reading will be held in January in San Francisco to celebrate the book. For more information about the series, please write to Michael Slosek at mslosek at fulbrightweb dot org.
Expensive Magic may be bought HERE for $6, which includes shipping, or by check.
Labels: CEDAR SIGO, House Press
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
I just received the 3rd issue of string of small machines..
It's a beaut. Here's the TOC:
sabrina calle
harold abramowitz & amanda ackerman
kathryn l. pringle
cedar sigo
maureen thorson
mark lamoureux
brandon downing
roberto harrison
paul klinger
elizabeth robinson
cover: michael slosek
I'm especially glad to see Sabrina Calle with a healthy selection of poems right at the front. Also really glad to see kathryn l. pringle, Maureen Thorson, and Mark Lamoureux in the issue. But, in general, everyone in this issue is a knockout. House Press and their varied publications are really starting to spread their wings.
Also, Katalanche Press is back with two new publications from Michael Slosek and Tan Lin.
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Labels: House Press, katalanche press, string of small machines
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
ERIC UNGER, JUST AS FORM
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All the recent releases from House Press are seriously beautifully made. If you're a bibliophile, you'll want to have what they're making. So, don't be shy. Write Slosek and get one before they're all gone.
And if you don't live in the Bay Area, go thru the House Press website to learn how to obtain their books the old fashioned way--THRU INTERNET SHOPPING!
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By the way, poet/ publisher, Michael Slosek, of House Press fame, is now living in San Francisco (yea for us! (so sorry, Chicago) ), and he's got a bunch of copies of the newly released, Just as Form, by Eric Unger (an awesome poet, if you didn't already know). If you live in the Bay Area and would like to get your greedy little hands on one of these beautifully made books, you should email Mr. Slosek at:
mslosek AT fulbrightweb DOT org
All the recent releases from House Press are seriously beautifully made. If you're a bibliophile, you'll want to have what they're making. So, don't be shy. Write Slosek and get one before they're all gone.
And if you don't live in the Bay Area, go thru the House Press website to learn how to obtain their books the old fashioned way--THRU INTERNET SHOPPING!
Labels: ERIC UNGER, House Press, Just as Form
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
AARON LOWINGER, OPEN NIGHT
As some of you may already know, me and poetry are on the outs. Slowly but surely we are being drawn back together, and a dialogue, though minimal, has begun again. Yes, it was a traumatic break and we both said some things we wish we could take back, but there's nothing poetry nor I can do about that now. The only thing we can do is move on and work on our trust issues, and give it one more shot. One way I'm doing this is by reading the least pretentious poetry I can. And so I've been reading Artuad's poetry, and on the opposite end of that, as far as subject goes, I've been re-reading Aaron Lowinger's Open Night.
Open Night is a House Press publication, which is a collective of poets I've mentioned before, who continually impress me because I think they're really doing something off the beaten path of "experimental poetry". I don't really feel like any of them are sticking to any rules, not even their own, or their collective's specific ideas of poetry, and they're just writing it. JUST WRITING IT! THANK FUCKING GOD! So much "new" poetry seems to be written by the same person and with so much "Intention"--yes, with a capital 'I'--and each of these House Press poets are distinguishable. With Open Night, Aaron Lowinger has created a series of poems, all titled "open night," that is unabashedly lyrical and unabashedly personal and direct.
I don't want to go on too long about this, but I wanted to post this poem, which is the first piece of literature I've seen directly influenced by Parker Zane Allen's Dating Tips With the Gangland Massacre of the Heart:
open night
The light is open
a giant sky blinks
Tawrin listens to Bach
and the rain like never ever
from inside the bar
and last daylight leans in
then I see this big-eyed girl
with the body of a fish
and tail like a hawk
when we talked
her hair sparkled
the room started smelling better
and I listened to everything she said
and I thought of that song
Ghostface sings for Old Dirty
Jeff Lewis sings about Will Oldham
and Parker Zane Allen's stories
if you could take your shoes off
and put them on my dashboard
I would say it's magic
magic
girls are magic
The last few lines are directly lifted from Parker's Dating Tip, "Tapedeck", which was included in the first SMALL TOWN PZA. There's a certain kind of intimacy, simplicity, and directness with lines like "the room started smelling better" that I don't often see working, or even attempted, in most poetry. I just dig it. In fact, this series of poems from Aaron Lowinger shares that kind of immediate intimacy and casual but surprising detail that makes Parker Zane Allen's Dating Tips work so well. What happens, at least for me, is that I believe every word.
If you go to the House Press site and click on Aaron Lowinger's name you can read another excerpted poem, and also find out how to get a copy of your own. The other thing I really love about this book is that it's pocket size. It fits perfectly in the back pocket of your jeans. The portability adds to the intimacy of these lyric pieces, perfect for reading on the bus or wherever.
PS
Just to further clarify, and in another ambigous way, the kind of intimacy I'm talking about--think of The Replacements with songs like "Kiss Me on the Bus," or bands like Lucero and their songs like "Slow Dancing," or early Springsteen like "I'm on Fire," or "Atlantic City," and that's exactly the same feeling you'll get from Parker's Dating Tips and Lowinger's Open Night.
As some of you may already know, me and poetry are on the outs. Slowly but surely we are being drawn back together, and a dialogue, though minimal, has begun again. Yes, it was a traumatic break and we both said some things we wish we could take back, but there's nothing poetry nor I can do about that now. The only thing we can do is move on and work on our trust issues, and give it one more shot. One way I'm doing this is by reading the least pretentious poetry I can. And so I've been reading Artuad's poetry, and on the opposite end of that, as far as subject goes, I've been re-reading Aaron Lowinger's Open Night.
Open Night is a House Press publication, which is a collective of poets I've mentioned before, who continually impress me because I think they're really doing something off the beaten path of "experimental poetry". I don't really feel like any of them are sticking to any rules, not even their own, or their collective's specific ideas of poetry, and they're just writing it. JUST WRITING IT! THANK FUCKING GOD! So much "new" poetry seems to be written by the same person and with so much "Intention"--yes, with a capital 'I'--and each of these House Press poets are distinguishable. With Open Night, Aaron Lowinger has created a series of poems, all titled "open night," that is unabashedly lyrical and unabashedly personal and direct.
I don't want to go on too long about this, but I wanted to post this poem, which is the first piece of literature I've seen directly influenced by Parker Zane Allen's Dating Tips With the Gangland Massacre of the Heart:
open night
The light is open
a giant sky blinks
Tawrin listens to Bach
and the rain like never ever
from inside the bar
and last daylight leans in
then I see this big-eyed girl
with the body of a fish
and tail like a hawk
when we talked
her hair sparkled
the room started smelling better
and I listened to everything she said
and I thought of that song
Ghostface sings for Old Dirty
Jeff Lewis sings about Will Oldham
and Parker Zane Allen's stories
if you could take your shoes off
and put them on my dashboard
I would say it's magic
magic
girls are magic
The last few lines are directly lifted from Parker's Dating Tip, "Tapedeck", which was included in the first SMALL TOWN PZA. There's a certain kind of intimacy, simplicity, and directness with lines like "the room started smelling better" that I don't often see working, or even attempted, in most poetry. I just dig it. In fact, this series of poems from Aaron Lowinger shares that kind of immediate intimacy and casual but surprising detail that makes Parker Zane Allen's Dating Tips work so well. What happens, at least for me, is that I believe every word.
If you go to the House Press site and click on Aaron Lowinger's name you can read another excerpted poem, and also find out how to get a copy of your own. The other thing I really love about this book is that it's pocket size. It fits perfectly in the back pocket of your jeans. The portability adds to the intimacy of these lyric pieces, perfect for reading on the bus or wherever.
PS
Just to further clarify, and in another ambigous way, the kind of intimacy I'm talking about--think of The Replacements with songs like "Kiss Me on the Bus," or bands like Lucero and their songs like "Slow Dancing," or early Springsteen like "I'm on Fire," or "Atlantic City," and that's exactly the same feeling you'll get from Parker's Dating Tips and Lowinger's Open Night.
Labels: Aaron Lowinger, House Press, Open Night, parker zane allen
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